Nazism in Israel?

They were identified as
"Neo-Nazis." Eight young
immigrant Russian Jews were arrested in Israel,
September 9, 2007. They certainly filled the bill,
committing acts of thuggery and vandalism, making
pictures of themselves doing the "Heil Hitler"
salute, and painting swastikas on synagogues.

Reuters quotes Amos Hermon, representative of
the Jewish Agency, a quasi-government group, who
said the youth were "suffering from `immigration
shock` and vented their frustrations by expressing
`some of the most hurtful sentiments towards the Jewish
people` and emulating behavior they may have witnessed
in the former Soviet Union."

Perhaps even more damaging is the
shadow this juvenile behavior casts on sincere
sentiments of nationalism in Israel—like the
bad name Nazism gave to nationalism everywhere in
the world. The word "Nazi" has
erroneously become synonymous with
nationalism. Even "patriotism" has become
suspect.

Mickey Rosenfeld, Israeli police
spokesman, briefed the AP.

"The
group planned its attacks, and its targets were foreign
workers from Asia, drug addicts, homosexuals,
punks and Jews who wore skullcaps. In one case they
discussed planning a murder. …Some of the victims
filed official complaints with police, and other victims
were identified after police viewed the films and
photos."

Now, no one in his right mind
would condone the brutal behavior of these neo-Nazis.
But are we allowed to consider their sentiments? Can we
examine at least their theoretical position? What of
their intent?

What of nationhood? Is there no
place for concern over a nation`s health and prosperity?
Has a nation
no enemies?

I doubt these young men were
enemies of Israel. They were simply misguided, immature,
and irresponsible youth. But they made a point, maybe in
spite of themselves. They made it very loudly, in the
most agonizing way possible.

I think not. I think it is time
rather to shake loose of this
fear of being called a Nazi. Nationhood is in the
balance. We can`t simply allow
fear of a bad name to mesmerize us into an
impotence that allows our nation to be hijacked by our
enemies from without—or within. It is a great error to
allow a liberal lobby in the name of tolerance to allow
the disintegration of the country.

You`re
dead if you`re found associated with it
in any way. It has developed into a legal tort. It
is used to hammer down any notion of race, religion, or
ethnicity to be associated with a nation—especially, if
not exclusively, Judeo-Christian European nations, and
particularly America, land of the "free," rather,
land of experimental
court tort.

But this liberal, self-righteous
denial of anything nationalistic, this quasi-religious
mantra of
anti-Nazi hysterics, this politicized aversion to a
historical fringe ideology, cannot be allowed to squelch
true patriotism.

The people of a nation must never
be denied the expression of their natural love for their
country. Without love of country, no nation can exist
for long. It will become rather a heartless business
convenience, a
lusus naturaeof mean greed.

Okay, so America presents a bit of
a problem. America is now
multi-cultural. America has
many races, many
religions—and many ideologies, actually. What is
in fact the country? Is there something that we all
love? Is there something that is tangibly American?

As an American Indian, I seek
their opinion. Their view is the one I want
to consider. I am
bound to them in blood, war, and
treaty. My history is theirs, and theirs mine. I
have looked to them for the health of the country.

The anti-Nazi hysterics act like
nationhood is a bad thing. They suggest that a country
is itself a freak of human nature, and something to grow
out of, to get passed, to develop beyond.
George Soros equates nationhood to "tribalism."
Naturally, he is
most interested in bringing down the greatest
nation—America. And because of America`s multi-cultural
conditioning, it appears an easy enough task. He wants
an "Open
Society," with closed doors to the basic,
historic elements of human existence: religion,
ethnicity, and nationhood. He wants a world that can be
perfectly controlled, one without these pestilential
differences.

Most interestingly, the anti-Nazi
hysterics want exactly the same thing Hitler wanted—to
dominate the world.